RDA for the non-cataloger 1

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Carrie WallisSean CallihanMary Ann Abner RDA for Non-Catalogers Carrie WallisAcquisitions LibrarianJessamine County Public Library Catalogs:6 Degrees of WORDS, MAKING UP Welcome to the FRamily Why Should I Care About RDA? Jessamine County Public Library Librarians are often riveting conversationalists because of their overuse of acronyms and library jargon. Another powerful, yet often overlooked, professional conversation tool is that of the made-up word. The trick is to take a normal word and add a suffix or two to it.

Future:– BIBFRAME, Linked Data??? Timeline Not just for “Anglo-Americans” and not just for libraries A tool that addresses cataloging all types of content and media Designed to be used online RDA records can co-exist with AACR2 records Successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., 1978 (AACR2) Aunt FRBR & Uncle FRAD (FRBR’s User Needs)1. Find 2. Identify3. Select4. Obtain Offer structure for organizing bibliographic and authority information based on user needs Provide precise vocabularies to lend clarity to cataloging rules Stress relationships & linking Allow for the emergence of new data forms Conceptual models that ... WEMI The essence of FRBR (take it or leave it) WEMI FRBR Inspired Catalogs OCLC LibraryThing JCPL Catalog(Non-FRBRized) Limitations on RDADeveloped in the 1960's, MARC has been tweaked to accomdated RDA but is really meant for AACR2As long the ILS remains grounded in flat MARC records, library data will be kept in their stand-alone silos The forty-five-year-old MARC format, currently at version MARC21, is an obvious barrier to the provision of library services in a web-based environment.

There is a growing consensus that the time has come for libraries tomove to a new format. ~Karen CoyleMARC21 as Data: A StartCode4Lib JournalIssue 14, 2011-07-25 Remind me why again? Increased Findability To be not only on the Web, but of the Web (Karen Coyle) "RDA provides a bridge fromour current environment to new data structures, but some of the benefits are not going to be realized in our current systems." ~Lori Robare Univ. of Oregon Libraries Library Catalogs Collection of MARC records (Up until now) Built on AACR2, 1978 revision (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) Text records intended for people to read Online catalog still resembles the catalog card Then Now Links! More Works Relationships The Library of Congress has launched a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. BIBFRAME